Mushroom growing at George Street Community Bookshop!
This is a FREE demo/short workshop – but you need to book to secure a place.
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Join artist/writer Michelle Collier for a mushroom-growing workshop in the bookshop, as part of her MYCOMYTHOPOEIA project.
Come along to try your hand at mushroom growing, chat about creative recycling and feed our human stories (in book form) back to the non-human network!
Rather than growing mushrooms as food, this workshop is all about mushrooms as ART. We’ll be turning old books into evolving, organic sculptures – part story, part fungi.
After the workshop you’ll have the option to take your project home with you, or leave it with the mushroom mother.
The workshop is just one part of a greater piece of collective activity. So, once your mushrooms begin to sprout, we’d like to exhibit your ‘sculpture’ back in the bookshop as inspiration for ongoing activities.
Absolute beginners welcome. Michelle is new to mushroom growing, too – so let’s explore and get creative together!
Books and mushroom materials will be provided.
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For more info and to book your place, visit the eventbrite link.
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DISCLAIMER
Please note: as we will be growing mushrooms on old books that have been donated to the bookshop, we cannot account for the inks or materials used in their production. As such any mushrooms grown are NOT SUITABLE FOR CONSUMPTION, since they may absorb toxic compounds from the books.
By booking onto this workshop, you acknowledge that the mushrooms grown are for DECORATIVE purposes only and MUST NOT BE EATEN.
This workshop is not suitable for anyone with an allergy to mushrooms.
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ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
This event is part of MYCOMYTHOPOEIA – an artist residency at George Street Community Bookshop, exploring the bookshop through the lens of mycorrhizal networks. Across October and November, Michelle will be inviting the local community to reimagine the bookshop through the lens of mushrooms and mycelium – where stories, ideas and knowledge are what nourishes the bookshop network. And where the ‘fruiting bodies’ are our collective creative outputs. To find out more, visit Michelle’s website: https://www.mickeypip.com/post/mycomythopoiea-an-artist-residency
ABOUT GEORGE STREET COMMUNITY BOOKSHOP
Based in George Street, Glossop, we are an independent, second-hand bookshop, owned and run by the community, showcasing a huge range of genre fiction, collectibles, local interest books and children’s literature.
https://www.georgestreetcommunitybookshop.co.uk/
